Aug 05 Rapper Wyclef Jean Files to Run for Haitian Presidency Grammy-winning recording artist and philanthropist Wyclef Jean has confirmed reports that he plans to run for president of his homeland of Haiti. On Thursday, he filed the paperwork to run at an electoral council office in Port-au-Prince. Jean, who said… Continue reading
Jul 29 Keeping Disease at Bay in the Camps of Port-au-Prince By Talea Miller The tent camps of Port-au-Prince have all the makings of disease breeding grounds; thousands of people living in temporary shelters, in very close contact, completely reliant on aid for clean water and sanitation services. But as the disaster response from… Continue reading
Jul 15 Port-au-Prince Maternity Clinics Pushed to Limit By Talea Miller It's nearly dusk in Port-au-Prince on a recent sweltering summer evening, and four women at the Health Center of Croix des Bouquets are in the early stages of labor. They are all expected to give birth by morning and will… Continue reading
Jul 15 Watch In Haiti, Mental Health Still a Concern for Many Quake Survivors In the last of his week-long series of reports from Haiti, Ray Suarez examines the mental health problems survivors are having following January's devastating earthquake. Continue watching
Jul 14 Haiti Aims to Move Residents Out of Tents, Back Into Habitable Homes By Talea Miller With 1.5 million Haitians still living in tent camps, international organizations and the government are struggling to find legally available land for new settlements and ways to decongest the existing camps. The government is now advising people who can return… Continue reading
Jul 14 Life in Haiti’s Tent Cities By Talea Miller More than 1,300 tent camps are housing an estimated 1.5 million people in Haiti displaced by a powerful earthquake in January. Some camps are well serviced by a variety of NGOs, but other more informal camps have little support. Continue reading
Jul 14 Watch In Haiti, Amputees Face Different Kind of Healing As part of his latest series of reports from Haiti, Ray Suarez details the road ahead for citizens who lost limbs after the country's devastating earthquake in January. Continue watching
Jul 13 What Now in Haiti? President Preval Talks With Ray Suarez By Ray Suarez The temperature has been in the mid-90s, but the humidity makes it feel like it's over 100. The sun pounds the pavement, heat radiates from the cinder block walls that push pedestrians to a narrow strip of sidewalk in most… Continue reading
Jul 13 Watch Preval Assesses Haiti’s Quake Recovery Ray Suarez talks with Haitian President Rene Preval about the recovery the country still faces, six months after a devastating earthquake. Continue watching
Jul 12 Haiti a Patchwork of Starts and Stops on Quake Recovery By Ray Suarez Six months after a powerful earthquake rocked Haiti, more than one million people are still homeless and the people of Port-au-Prince and surrounding regions continue to suffer the economic, physical and mental after-effects of the devastating temblor. The… Continue reading